The Kings School goes for a row over headmaster’s jaunt

Since earliest colonial times, we’ve exhibited a wonderful disdain and comic appreciation for our self-presumed elite’s often slavish admiration for the British class system but, occasionally, they outdo themselves in sheer dumb arrogant pomposity.

The King’s School ticked all those boxes last year, effortlessly playing into outsider prejudices by sending headmaster Tony George on a business-class trip with his wife to the UK to watch the Royal Henley Regatta. Now for the punchline: the…